Happy Holidays!
By Jillian | December 24, 2009
I’ve been absent from this blog for a while, nursing an injured knee. But I’m much better now, and looking forward to bringing you lots of new and useful information in the weeks and months to come. Thanks for your patience, and be sure to keep an eye out for next week’s post.
Meanwhile, please take a moment to enjoy “Three Gifts for the Holiday”:
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, or as many of my friends do, some combination thereof, I hope you’re having a holiday season filled with peace, joy and abundance.
Happy holidays!
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Get more traffic to your website…
By Jillian | August 4, 2009
Recently I interviewed my friend, Ross Goldberg, who has created a new software tool that can totally amp up your efforts at getting traffic to your site.
Take a few minutes and listen in.
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Create Your Own Social Network (and It’s Free)
By Jillian | July 10, 2009
Facebook and MySpace are a great place to connect with other people, whether you’re a college student, a mom, a person building your career, or a business owner. But both Facebook and MySpace have limits.
What if you could create your own social network? Actually, there’s a great site where you can do just that.
It’s Ning.com. On Ning, you can set up your own social network, completely free. You choose from over 50 different themes, and if you want, you can even control the CSS and add third party applications. This allows you to completely customize both appearances and function.
Ning offers a latest activity feature, member profile pages, friends, messaging, and of course, you can add videos, photos, chat, music, events, and blogs. You control who has access to your site, and have the option to approve members, if you desire.
Right now over 1 million people have already set up their own social networking sites on Ning, and 27 million have signed on. It’s a good place to search for interest groups and find compatible people.
Of course, Ning would be great for setting up a “get-together” site for your extended family, or a “keep in touch” site for old classmates. But I’m particularly interested in the business possibilities. With Ning, you can create a real 2.0 site where your readers can go and see your latest offers, watch your videos, and communicate directly with you and each other.
All this is free, but for a less than $5/month, you can publish your Ning site under your own domain name, and for an additional fee, you can add other features, such as setting up your own advertising revenue stream.
My friend, Mark Hendricks (a kickass Internet marketer and contributor to Your Internet Cash Machine), recently set up on Ning, and that’s how I got interested. In fact, on his site, Mark has included a resource for finding JV partners: http://ississ.ning.com/group/jointventuregroup. It’s new, but with Mark’s many readers, it’s likely to grow quickly, so I encourage you to check it out.
You can learn more, and browse around the existing networks, at www.Ning.com. Let me know if you find anything interesting!
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Here’s what I appreciate…
By Jillian | June 9, 2009
What do you appreciate most in life?
Every day I spend a few minutes listing all the things for which I’m grateful. Frequently, the things on my list of the day are a direct result of the kind of work I do.
For example, I come and go as I please. I don’t know if that seems big to you, but for me, it’s huge. When I worked in an office, I always felt as though I was in jail – surrounded by four walls, and unable to walk away at will. Trapped.
Nowadays when I’m ready to get away from my computer, I simply walk out to my car and head over to the lake, or the art museum, or my favorite coffee shop.
Instead of a cubicle, I have a desk overlooking the pool in our back yard. At some point most days, I go out and swim for a while. Walking trails surround our house, and I walk every day for an hour or so.
I travel a lot, for business and for pleasure. My family often travels with me. My personal goal is to spend some time on every continent before I’m done.
My grandchildren like to have “Gummy dates” with me (the name bestowed upon me by my oldest granddaughter). I take them out one at a time, and since four of them are homeschoolers, we usually do that during the day.
Well, you can see the theme here. It’s freedom. But in order to enjoy personal freedom, you need an independent income.
I absolutely love the fact that I make a living teaching people how to live this kind of life. Since I initiated my Internet Business Incubator 10-Week Personal Mentoring Program, I’ve had a blast working with a wide variety of students. Some of them were just starting out – perhaps without even an idea for a business – while others were fairly well established, and interested in maximizing their income.
You can join this mentoring program at a surprisingly low price, particularly in light of the one-on-one support you’ll receive from me directly:
www.YourInternetCashMachine.com/mentor.htm
Would you like to enjoy this level of personal freedom? Would you like to generate the income to support it through an Internet business of your own?
If so, I’d love to help you do that.
www.YourInternetCashMachine.com/mentor.htm
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WordPress – Getting the Help I Needed
By Jillian | June 6, 2009
As you may know, I’m moderately technically challenged. I used to say I was completely inept technically, but over the past few years I’ve come to realize that isn’t really accurate. After all, I learned to build websites in FrontPage, and I’ve learned a variety of (admittedly user-friendly) technologies involved in running my Internet businesses.
Still, I’ve been resisting learning WordPress. You may know that WordPress is the software platform used to build many blogs, including this one. As I’ve said before, the search engines love WordPress, and it’s now possible to build entire websites in WordPress.
Thus far, I’ve depended on expert help to create my WordPress blogs. I’ll undoubtedly continue to need some expert help, unless I break down and learn HTML, because many modifications to WordPress sites involve changing the HTML code. But as my friends kept telling me, creating a basic blog in WordPress is not brain surgery.
So, I got started when I was out in California, by having my friend Chris Rodriguez of RichDreams.com walk me through the process. It took him four hours, but in all honesty, more than half of that was consumed by my trying to decide which theme I wanted to use on my project. (Chris didn’t really mind – it gave him time to keep up with the Lakers game.)
Anyway, fast forward until I’m back home in Austin. Once I had the basic setup completed, I was ready to move on by uploading some of the bells and whistles. And that’s when I got in over my head.
Fortunately, the help I needed wasn’t too far away. I simply called the technical help desk at my server company, and they came to my rescue. Steve walked me through the entire process, showing me where I had been making mistakes, and providing me with the correct information. He even patiently stayed on the line until I had completed uploading what I needed.
My server company offers Fantastico, which makes installing WordPress a piece of cake. They aren’t responsible for what I do with the software afterwards, or helping me with modifications. But as I’ve found before with these guys, they go the extra mile to support their customers.
So here’s a friendly reminder. If you have a website, or plan to get online soon, you’ll find the best pricing, dependability and service at:
In fact, you can host unlimited domains all at the low monthly price of $4.95. The above is my affiliate link, BTW. I cannot recommend these guys highly enough.
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How to Leave Your Job
By Jillian | May 19, 2009
A few weeks ago I was at an Internet marketing conference, and I had lunch with my friend, Bryant Jones. I know Bryant because he used to work in Joe Vitale’s coaching program, and he’s also worked for Bob Doyle and Nitro Marketing. Bryant and I used to cross paths quite often at our monthly gathering of Austin Internet marketers, but lately he’s been traveling, instead.
In fact, in the past few months, Bryant has spent time in Mexico, Indonesia and more recently, in Thailand. I had so much fun listening to him recount some of his adventures.
But it hasn’t been ALL play. Bryant has also been hard at work putting together the new program he’s developed, that tells other people how they, too, can break free of working for someone else. It’s called “Exit Your Job,” and you can read all about it here:
http://www.exitmyjob.com/cmd.php?af=981106
Bryant got the idea from talking to friends, telling them about his journey – and so many people said, “But how do I walk away from my job?” So he decided to create a plan anyone can use to do just that: exit your job!
Now, maybe you aren’t interested in traveling the world. Maybe (like me) you’re taking care of a family right now, and you just want to spend lots of time with them. Maybe you just want the total freedom of setting your own schedule, day by day.
If so, I think you owe it to yourself to check this out:
http://www.exitmyjob.com/cmd.php?af=981106
Believe me when I say, it’s the only way to live!
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Building a Business on eBay
By Jillian | April 17, 2009
Thousands of new millionaires have been created through eBay. EBay can be a great way to get started making money on the Internet, because is a ready-to-use platform for building a business. The site offers a huge volume of instant traffic, and not just browsers, but serious buyers looking for products.
Obviously, EBay is much more than a place to sell the stuff you clean out of your garage… but that is a way to begin. In fact, experienced eBay business owners recommend you begin by getting comfortable selling a few small items on the site, and buying some items in eBay auctions. Today over 200 million people all over the world buy and sell on eBay. eBay has fattened the wallets of individuals, fostered the creation of many small businesses, and launched multimillion dollar companies.
Dozens of eBay competitors have now jumped into the fray, notably Yahoo! Auctions, Bidz.com, Amazon, ePier, OnlineAuction.com, and uBid.com. Many of the biggest gurus in the Internet marketing world got their start on eBay.
Obviously, selling items on eBay and the other auction sites is a promising business model. But even if you are using another Internet business model, you can drive traffic to your website and build your mailing list through offering your products on eBay.
If you like the safety of launching your Internet business in a structured environment, with ongoing support, then the online auction sites may be perfect for you. If you are a collector, or you just love to buy and sell, you’ll find the auctions fun and satisfying. Another real benefit is the quick cash return. You can pull something out of your attic, or come across a great find at your local thrift store, post it on eBay, and sell it three days later.
eBay is the largest online auction site, and it is rated the best site overall for users, so it’s a good place to begin. But once you’ve mastered eBay, and understand its policies and guidelines, you may want to expand and try the other auction sites as well.
Your Internet Cash Machine: The Insiders’ Guide to Making Big Money, Fast! has a great chapter on using the online auction sites. Here are some other terrific resources:
Turn Auction Traffic Into Cash
The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay
A Part-Time Plan for Massive Success Using eBay and the Internet
And if you’d like a mentor of your own, check out my Internet Business Incubator 10-Week Personal Mentoring Program:
www.YourInternetCashMachine.com/mentor.htm
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Publicize Your Internet Business
By Jillian | March 19, 2009
Special guest expert for this month’s Silver Member teleclass is Annie Jennings of Annie Jennings Public Relations. Annie’s associate, Stacy Amaral, will join Annie and me on the call. Talking with Annie is a special treat, because she is one of the select group of Guest Experts Joe and I featured in our book, Your Internet Cash Machine: The Insiders’ Guide to Making Big Money, Fast!
If you are interested in getting more visitors to your website, or if you are thinking of writing a book and wondering how to best publicize it, Annie and Stacy will have lots of great ideas to share with you.
As always, we’ll be sending this interview out to Silver Members in a CD. If you are already a Silver Member, you’ll be receiving your CD and Silver Member letter soon. If you haven’t yet subscribed as a Silver Member, you can do so by going to:
www.YourInternetCashMachine.com
The monthly cost is only $37, and you get access to priceless exclusive content, as well as the monthly interviews with guest experts on the cutting edge, all to help you build Your Internet Cash Machine.
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Okay, I’ve written an article. Now what?
By Jillian | March 13, 2009
Here’s another beautiful aspect of article marketing. Not only can you multiply the power of your article exponentially, by sending it to a number of different article distribution sites, but you can also repurpose each article!
For example, suppose you have a site that features soccer. Perhaps you sell soccer equipment, and keep your readers up to day on soccer events. You’ve written an article on a new professional soccer team. Definitely interesting to your readers and to soccer fans throughout the country – even the world.
Take your article, and make it into a blog post. Put the information into your Facebook page. Break it into small bites, and put it into your Twitter tweets (over several days). Read it into your recorder, and create an audio you can sell (perhaps a downloadable mp3 or a CD you can ship, for those who want a tangible product). Your audio can also become a podcast which you sell through through one of the podcast sites.
By the way, a great way to produce an mp3 is to use the free service, www.FreeConferenceCall.com. This site allows you to record telephone calls, as well as accomodating listeners if you want to do a teleconference.
Turn the information into a short video, and upload it to more than a dozen video sites using the free service, www.TubeMogul.com.
Suddenly, your one idea for an article is all over the Internet, and each link back to your site enhances your standing in the search engines.
MY BIRTHDAY SALE:
Just a quick reminder. My birthday was March 9, so this week I’ve been doing a Birthday Sale. Sign up for my Internet Business Incubator 10-Week Personal Mentoring Program, and I’ll immediately refund 20% of your purchase price.
www.YourInternetCashMachine.com/mentor.htm
It’s a great way to jump start your Internet business, and save money at the same time!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Article Marketing on Steroids
By Jillian | January 14, 2009
I’ve posted some information recently about article marketing – certainly one of the best “shortcuts” to getting targeted Internet traffic to your website.
Posting even two or three articles on a site like Ezine Articles can help build your readership. But, of course, the broader your distribution, the more effective your marketing.
There are hundreds of article directory websites where you can post your articles, and I’d recommend you get your article on all of the ones that are relevant to your niche. The only problem is, if you try to do that manually, one by one, you’re going to need hours and hours to devote to the task. Some of the big marketers have full-time employees just working on articles and article distribution.
On my first post in this series, I recommended a much better approach. I think it bears repeating here.
Use Dr. Neil Swanson’s Unique Article Wizard site, where you can upload each article, write a few small variations in the text to assure each article post is accepted, then press a few buttons to distribute to every single directory you designate – all in a few quick and easy steps:
http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/amember/go.php?r=5130&i=l0
This service is very reasonably priced, and it allows you to submit an unlimited number of articles.
It’s Article Marketing on steroids.
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